Hillary Clinton has managed a whopping 12-percentage point lead over rival Donald Trump in the US presidential race just weeks ahead of the election day, according to a new poll on Sunday which said that support for the Democratic nominee has touched 50 per cent for the first time.
ABC News/Washington Post poll said it was the highest for Clinton and the lowest for Trump since their campaigns began.
“Clinton leads Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, 50 to 38 per cent, in the national survey,” it said.
Trump has a high disapproval rating with 69 per cent of the likely voters disapproving of his response to accusations about his treatment of women, found the poll conducted by langer Research Associates from Thursday to Saturday among 1,391 adults, including 874 likely voters.
The other two presidential candidate Gary Johnson has 5 per cent support, Jill Stein 2 per cent.